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★Dina Rubina: “there’s not a single foul word in the text, yet the novel should have been graded 18+ or – better even – 60+. Everything in this book is so open, so fragile, cynical and piercingly intimate that makes you blush, a shame splashing in the heart, in the confused human heart that dreams, with courage and tenacity, of one only thing – of love”.

　　Brazilian, French, classic – these are most frequent bikini wax styles made by Galina, the novel’s protagonist. Once a parachutist in her birth land, Ukraine, a hot-air balloon pilot in Canada, at the novel’s opening Galina works as a licensed beautician and nails master in New York. It looks, Galina’s dramatic life soars along with a headstrong “Lady” wind, but the true force that carries her forward is a desperate attempt to escape from her devastating memories.

　　The novel is structured as an exchange of emails between the protagonist and a writer, Rubina’s alter-ego. In her emails to the writer Galina details on peculiarities of her occupation, her current life in the States, and despite her efforts to forget the haunting memories – her mesmerizing love story, the tragic death of her husband and loss of their unborn daughter. The story of Galina’s life is intermitted with the kaleidoscope of narratives about her clients, whose versatile cast ranges from a transgender friend to an elderly thief in a nursery home to a horrific abuse victim from Africa… Heartbroken and shattered as she is, Galina attracts “handicaps”, as she ironically calls her clients, like a magnet – they seek her care, sympathy, compassion and maybe even love.

　　Often comic, at most shocking and provocative, sometimes nostalgic, tender and melancholic – such are Galina’s accounts, such are stories of her clients and friends. Such are indeed numerous facets of love.

Dina Rubina

　　Dina Rubina is an Israeli Russian-language writer. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1953, Dina
Rubina had her first stories published in 1970s in Yunost (Youth) magazine. She has received numerous awards, and is the bestselling author of over 40 titles, including eight novels. Dina Rubina’s novels and novellas have been made into films, adapted for TV, and staged in theaters in Russia and Israel. Dina Rubina is the Big Book Award winner (2007) for the novel On the Sunny Side of the Street and the Russian Prize finalist for the novel the White Dove of Cordoba. the total print run of the novel the White Dove of Cordoba is 180,000 copies to date. Each new title by Dina Rubina is published in a first edition of 80,000 copies. Since 1990 Dina Rubina has lived in Ma’ale-Adumim, Israel with her family, artist Boris Karafelov, her daughter, and grandchildren.